windows vista

Felipe Alfaro Solana felipe.alfaro at gmail.com
Mon Dec 4 13:28:19 UTC 2006


On 12/4/06, Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:
> sdavmor wrote:
> > Brian Fahrlander wrote:
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> >> sdavmor wrote:
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> >>> I'm getting my family off Windows onto Ubuntu ASAP before they start
> >>> bugging me about upgrading them to Vista. Just a few Windows app
> >>> issues, but I think come January all that will be left will be my
> >>> kids' games and my music workstation (which will remain until the NET
> >>> 2.0 issues are solved for WINE).
> >> How about VMWare? I'll bet there's no .NET issues, there...WINE
> >> isn't trash, but VMWare's always been better. And now it's free,
> >> too..
> >
> > I imagine VMWare or QEMU will be the interim solution. Thanks for
> > pointing out VMWare's free option. I didn't know that was so. Learn
> > something new every day...
> >
> > Eventually I'd like any carryover apps to be integrated under WINE
> > rather than a virtual guest. Or better still replaced by an improved
> > native *nix app... ;-)
> FYI free VMWARE Server works. Qemu does not run windows.

When you say QEMU doesn't run Windows, are you talking about Windows
Vista, right? Cause QEMU runs Windows 2003 Server and Windows XP
seamlessly.




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